New Renderings For Wisconsin Avenue Apartment

The Montgomery County Planning Board on Thursday will review new renderings of a walk-thru, public use space proposed for a Bethesda high-rise that planners say “will set a high-water mark for future projects,” in the downtown area.

Besides the distinct architectural look of the building, JBG is promising 11,000 square-feet of public-use space on the site.

That space is concentrated in a cut-thru that will have grassy mounds for people to climb and sit on, access to 20,000 square feet of retail (likely anchored by a yet-to-be-named grocery store, according to JBG) and a reflective, metallic treatment on the underside of the building overhead.

At a public meeting about the project in December, a JBG official said the developer was shooting for a January 2014 groundbreaking.